October 05, 2011, 2:07PM

Experts fielded questions from a crowd of about 200 Pike Road residents regarding the upcoming tax referendum on the question of funding the establishment of a municipal school system in the town. Full story »

August 08, 2011, 11:50AM

If the sales tax rate is increased to help pay off bonds used to build the development that includes Bass Pro Shops, "you cannot assume there is not going to be a backlash" by customers, an Auburn University economics professor said. Full story »

January 02, 2011, 9:00AM

Renewed optimism or the same old grind? That contrast characterizes the spread of opinion between economic optimists and pessimists as the Gulf Coast and nation step into 2011. Economists generally think that Alabama's roughly $157 billion economy will grow at about the same rate as the nation in the coming 12 months, while they generally agree that Mississippi's nearly... Full story »

December 18, 2010, 6:57AM

Alabama's job recovery sputtered for a second straight month in November, as the statewide jobless rate ticked up to 9 percent from 8.9 percent in October. The number of people with jobs climbed by 3,000, but that increase was less than half the growth of the overall labor force. That meant that the number of unemployed people rose to... Full story »

November 05, 2010, 7:25PM

A new study from the University of Alabama estimates that the state's economy will lose between $1 billion and $3.3 billion in economic activity this year because of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But overall, the numbers were less pessimistic than those adopted by state government in August, when it submitted a claim for lost tax revenue to... Full story »

September 24, 2010, 5:00AM

That could represent about 5 percent of all the income earned in the two counties in a year, though the state’s analysis doesn’t account for losses from the whole counties. How the state got to its numbers is unclear Full story »

July 16, 2010, 6:34AM

BAY MINETTE, Ala. -- With a few minor disagreements today over the timing of presenting claims to BP PLC for lost tax revenue, commissioners in their first post-oil-spill budget meeting pored over the income county staffers estimate for next year -- about $2 million less than last year without expected oil disaster-related losses. Full story »

July 02, 2010, 5:00AM

A university economist experienced in developing forecasts used to build state budgets will be doing the same thing for Mobile and Baldwin counties and the state to estimate tax revenue losses caused by the Deepwater Horizon disaster, officials said Thursday Full story »